Intertextual design: the hidden stories of Atari women

Bjørn, Pernille; Rosner, Daniela K.

doi:10.1080/07370024.2020.1861947

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“…Some of the history books on video gaming, much like in other branches of knowledge, have ignored or glossed over the contributions of women in the video game industry (Bjørn & Rosner, 2022). Furthermore, a number of authors (Castaño, 2008;Gil-Juárez, Feliu & Vitores, 2010;Castaño & Webster, 2011) have identified a gender gap in video gaming, potentially leading to fewer women pursuing careers in the sector.…”

Section: A Brief Genealogy Of Pioneering Women Writing the Future Of ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender perspectives on educational contributions to the study of video-gaming: A baseline feminist genealogy

Valdés-Argüelles,

Fueyo Gutiérrez,

Verdeja

2024

J. Technol. Sci. Educ.

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As video games have evolved, they have emerged as useful tools in areas such as education, tackling global issues through their storylines and mechanics. However, never in the history of video games, not even today, has there been parity in the proportion of women directly employed in the development of video games. This paper is part of a broader research project undertaken in the context of a doctoral thesis within the framework of the R+D+I project ‘Building global citizenship with young people: researching transformative practices with participatory and inclusive methodologies’. It provides a historical perspective on video games and their place in culture and society, and attempts to outline a brief genealogy of the contributions of pioneering women in the video game industry. Recognising the work of women and addressing gender representation in video games is now a matter of great importance. Current trends in the video game industry reflect the impact of the pandemic on video game consumption habits, its expected continued growth in the future and its relationship with the development of virtual and augmented reality. Video games are therefore likely to remain an important part of culture and society in the future, with an ever-increasing role in education. It is therefore imperative to showcase the achievements of women in the video game industry, to highlight inequalities and to provide girls with genuine role models.

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Section: A Brief Genealogy Of Pioneering Women Writing the Future Of ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender perspectives on educational contributions to the study of video-gaming: A baseline feminist genealogy

Valdés-Argüelles,

Fueyo Gutiérrez,

Verdeja

2024

J. Technol. Sci. Educ.

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“…Although diversity is a multidimensional concept that refers to the variety of representations that exist within a group [2,76], gender (with a focus on women), is the most explored aspect of diversity in software engineering literature [47,66]. The prevalence of gender as most studied diversity aspect can be explained by the fact that the technology professions are known to be male dominated, despite the fact that programming was originally seen as a female occupation [8,9,20,34]. According to a longitudinal study that evaluated 50 years of data and the evolution of code contributions since 1970, Zacchiroli [81] showed that woman developers' contributions remain low when compared to those of men.…”

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An Empirical Investigation on the Challenges Faced by Women in the Software Industry: A Case Study

Trinkenreich,

Britto,

Gerosa

et al. 2022

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Context: Addressing women's under-representation in the software industry, a widely recognized concern, requires attracting as well as retaining more women. Hearing from women practitioners, particularly those positioned in multi-cultural settings, about their challenges and and adopting their lived experienced solutions can support the design of programs to resolve the under-representation issue. Goal: We investigated the challenges women face in global software development teams, particularly what motivates women to leave their company; how those challenges might break down according to demographics; and strategies to mitigate the identified challenges. Method: To achieve this goal, we conducted an exploratory case study in Ericsson, a global technology company. We surveyed 94 women and employed mixed-methods to analyze the data. Results: Our findings reveal that women face socio-cultural challenges, including work-life balance issues, benevolent and hostile sexism, lack of recognition and peer parity, impostor syndrome, glass ceiling bias effects, the prove-it-again phenomenon, and the maternal wall. The participants of our research provided different suggestions to address/mitigate the reported challenges, including sabbatical policies, flexibility of location and time, parenthood support, soft skills training for managers, equality of payment and opportunities between genders, mentoring and role models to support career growth, directives to hire more women, inclusive groups and events, women's empowerment, and recognition for women's success. The framework of challenges and suggestions can inspire further initiatives both in academia and industry to onboard and retain women.

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“…Additionally, the authors pointed out the importance of reflectivity "about whether the research is delivering on its ambitions to be feminist, improve human quality of life, and undermine rather than reinforce oppressive social structures" [6]. A recent notable example of such a perspective is Atari Woman 3 , a project that aims at narrating the hidden histories of women and gender minorities that made possible the development of computing technologies (see [10]).…”

Section: Feminismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Share Your Values! Community-Driven Embedding of Ethics in Research

Gold

Masu²,

Chevalier

et al. 2022

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

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Ethically-defensible research requires wide-ranging, holistic, and deep consideration. It is often overseen by Research Ethics Committees, Institutional Research Boards or equivalents but not all organisations have these and where they do, their degree of independence from organisational priorities varies (perhaps leading to research that would create reputational or other difficulties for organisations being left unpublished or unacknowledged). Conflicts of interest can therefore be left unmanaged, participants may be exploited, and society may not benefit. In this paper, we claim that publishing communities (e.g. scholarly conferences) can play a larger role in supporting improved ethical practice by defining and communicating the ethical values of their community's collective identity and aspirations. This approach is not prescriptive like procedural ethics nor as broad as general research ethics codes (both are important) but offers a tangible way to unify ethics concerns across research contexts.CCS Concepts: • Social and professional topics → Codes of ethics; User characteristics; • General and reference → General conference proceedings; Cross-computing tools and techniques; • Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models; HCI theory, concepts and models; Accessibility theory, concepts and paradigms.

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Intertextual design: the hidden stories of Atari women

Cited by 15 publications

References 64 publications

Gender perspectives on educational contributions to the study of video-gaming: A baseline feminist genealogy

Gender perspectives on educational contributions to the study of video-gaming: A baseline feminist genealogy

An Empirical Investigation on the Challenges Faced by Women in the Software Industry: A Case Study

Share Your Values! Community-Driven Embedding of Ethics in Research

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